Greater Danbury Irish Festival

08/21/2025

This year’s Irish Festival is on!! To be held September 20th and 21st.

Location changed to Greater Danbury Irish Cultural Center at 6 Lake Ave., Danbury, CT.

☘️🇮🇪We look forward to seeing you soon and enjoying the Irish spirit! 🇮🇪☘️

Get your Irish on!

06/30/2025

Gathering quite the lineup for entertainment this year!

Traditional Music
Irish Rock
Dancers
Puppets (yes I said puppets)

Heritage activities…

Vendors

Baked goods
Irish themed food

September 20-21…save the date!!!

03/20/2025

☘️✨Join us this Sunday 2 p.m. for the 28th Annual Greater Danbury St. Patrick's Day Parade in downtown Danbury!

This year we have 16 marching groups with floats, 2 horse guards, 7 marching bands, police, fire & much more! Shuttle buses will be available from 12:25 PM to 1:30 PM from the parking lot on the corner of Oil Mill Rd. & 6 Lake Ave., Danbury to take marchers to St. Peter's Church where step-off begins at 2 p.m. Park anywhere along the parade route:

St Peter's Church, 104 Main St.--> left on West St. near the Danbury Library --> straight up past Danbury City Hall --> ends at the Danbury Irish Cultural Center, 6 Lake Ave.

Join the Greater Danbury Irish Cultural Center in the club (6 Lake Ave., Danbury) after the parade for live Irish music with a bagpipe band, Irish food & drink & plenty of CRAIC! Open to all and all are welcome!

A HUGE thank you goes out to the Parade Chairman, Kevin Hearty & his committee as well as out generous parade sponsors:

Platinum: UK Gourmet, Jowdy Kane Funeral Home, Danbury & Kane Funeral Home, Ridgefield

Gold: Ives Bank

Silver: Union Savings Bank

Bronze: Hoffman Fuel, Paul Morton Jewelers
Danbury Auto Body

THANK YOU, ALL! ☘️✨

03/05/2025

✨☘🎶 Get ready for the Greater St. Patrick's Day Parade, Sunday, March 23, 2025. Stepoff is 2 p.m. at St. Peter Church, 104 Main St., Danbury. Parade route goes from Main - West St. - Lake Ave. and ends at the Greater Danbury Irish Cultural Center with live music, food and drinks. See you there! 🥁🚒🚙🎉

10/05/2024

✨☘We are pleased to announce that the raffle winners from the Irish Festival held last weekend were as follows:

💰1st prize John Philip Gallagher
💵2nd prize Clare Smith
💸3rd prize Meg Vertoli

👏👏Congratulations to the winners and thank you all for your support!

09/29/2024

🇮🇪 ☘️ Welp, that’s a wrap folks! Thank you so much to all of the volunteers, sponsors, vendors, bands, dance schools, entertainment, and everybody who came out to support the greater Danbury Irish festival. Until next year! 🎶 🥁

09/29/2024

🇮🇪 ☘️ Sending a HUGE shoutout and thank you to our platinum and diamond festival sponsors! We could not have presented this festival without your support!

Mulvaney Mechanical
Galante family
Michael and Michael Attorneys at Law
Banana Brazil
Berkshire corporate park
Victorian Associates
Augusti Silva
UK gourmet
O’Briens restaurant
Sacred grounds, coffee

09/28/2024

☘️ 👀 Looking for something fun to do today or tomorrow? Check out the greater Danbury Irish festival on the city center green in Danbury!✨🎻☘Live Irish music and dance, vendors, authentic, Irish food, and drink, and entertainment all weekend long. Free admission, parking at the patriot garage, bring a lawn chair.

Sponsored by UK Gourmet, come get some authentic Irish specialties in their vendor tent near the children’s tent, O’Brien’s restaurant, come try their corned beef in the food tent, sacred grounds, coffee, come, try their delicious Java in the hospitality tent, and Rizzo companies. We appreciate your support!

Here is today’s awesome festival entertainment lineup!

Saturday 9/28/24

12:00 p.m.Welcome: Mayor Alves Opening remarks
12:15 p.m. Fiddleuisce & Friends
1:15 p.m. Ashurst Academy of Irish Dance
1:45 p.m.Irish History with Historian Phil Gallagher
2:00 p.m.Ringrose & Freeman
3:30 p.m. SG Academy of Irish Dance
4:00 p.m. Kevin McKrell
5:00 p.m. Celtic Cross Pipes & Drums
5:45 p.m. Mighty Ploughboys
7:00 p.m. Kevin McKrell

09/28/2024

✨🎻☘TODAY'S THE DAY! SATURDAY!!!! ✨☘🥁Check out today's awesome festival entertainment lineup, sponsored by Platinum Sponsors UK Gourmet & O'Brien's Pub!!!

Saturday 9/28/24

12:00 p.m.Welcome: Mayor Alves Opening remarks
12:15 p.m. Fiddleuisce & Friends
1:15 p.m. Ashurst Academy of Irish Dance
1:45 p.m.Irish History with Historian Phil Gallagher
2:00 p.m.Ringrose & Freeman
3:30 p.m. SG Academy of Irish Dance
4:00 p.m. Kevin McKrell
5:00 p.m. Celtic Cross Pipes & Drums
5:45 p.m. Mighty Ploughboys
7:00 p.m. Kevin McKrell

09/27/2024

take note! ☘ We have some amazing, authentic Irish food coming at ya this weekend at The Greater Danbury Irish Festival! Come hungry so you have room for....

· Corned Beef Sandwiches 🍞
· Guinness Chili 🍲
· Irish Tator Tots 🥔
· Jameson Irish Sausage & Peppers 🫑
· County Clare Chicken Soup 🍵
· Hamburgers 🍔
· Cheeseburger 🧀
· Hot Dogs 🌭

✨🎻✨🎶🥁☘For more information on entertainment, children's tent, vendors, sponsors and more, please visit danburyirishfestival.org

09/27/2024

☘💰Win Big in Our Raffle & Silent Auction! A total of 3 prizes will be awarded!

💸First Prize: $2,000.
💵Second Prize: $1,000.
💰Third Prize: $500.

$5 per Ticket. All prizes to be announced/awarded on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. at the Irish Festival, 1 Ives St., Danbury, CT.

🛍Silent auction baskets include prizes from the Danbury Hat Tricks, Golf Ranch in Brookfield, Newsylum Brewing, Painted by the Shore, and Redding Roasters. There are also baskets for family-friendly game and movie nights, well-being, picnics, date nights, Irish coffee, artisanal art, and more!